Aerospace Engineering
(AERO)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Design
AERO 3002 [0.5 credit]
Aerospace Design and Practice
Design approach and phases. Design integration.
Influence of mission and other requirements on vehicle
configuration. Trade-off studies, sizing and configuration
layout. Flight vehicle loads, velocity-load factor diagram.
Structural design: overall philosophy, role in design
process, methods.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2001 and third-year status in
Engineering.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three
hours a week.
AERO 3101 [0.5 credit]
Lightweight Structures
Structural concepts; theory of elasticity; bending, torsion
and shear in thin-walled beams having single or multi-cell
sections; work and energy principles; deformation and
force analysis of advanced structures, including stiffened
thin-wall panels; finite element methods. Stability and
buckling of thin-walled structures.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3202.
Lectures three hours a week; problem analysis and
laboratories one hour a week.
AERO 3240 [0.5 credit]
Orbital Mechanics
Review of translational kinematics and dynamics.
Keplerian two-body problem: Kepler's laws, orbital
elements, orbit determination. Orbital perturbations:
oblateness of the Earth, atmospheric drag. Orbital
maneuvers and interplanetary flights. Advanced topics.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2101.
Lectures three hours per week, tutorial one hour per week.
AERO 3700 [0.5 credit]
Aerospace Materials
Properties, behaviour and manufacturing methods for
metals, polymers and ceramics used in aerospace
applications. Specialty alloys for gas turbines. Properties
and manufacture of aerospace composites. Behaviour of
materials in space.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2700.
Lectures three hours a week; problem analysis and
laboratories one hour a week.
AERO 3841 [0.5 credit]
Spacecraft Design I
Design of spacecraft and spacecraft subsystems with
emphasis on mission requirements and current design
methods: spacecraft configuration, payload, structural,
attitude control, thermal, power, and other related
subsystems. Spacecraft integration and testing.
Prerequisite(s): AERO 3240.
Lectures three hours a week, tutorials or laboratories three
hours per week.
AERO 4003 [0.5 credit]
Aerospace Systems Design
Stress and deflection analysis; fatigue, safe life, damage
tolerant design. Propulsion systems integration; landing
gear; control and other subsystems. Mechanical
component design. Airworthiness regulations and
certification procedures. Weight and cost estimation and
control. System reliability. Design studies of aircraft or
spacecraft components.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2202 and AERO 3002.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three
hours a week.
AERO 4009 [0.5 credit]
Aviation Management and Certification
Product development, quality control. Strategic
organizational analysis and design. Airworthiness, type
certification and planning, delegation of authority, airplane
flight manual. Aerospace system design and safety.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year status in Engineering.
Lectures three hours per week.
AERO 4300 [0.5 credit]
Acoustics and Noise Control
Behaviour of compressible fluids, sound waves and
properties of sound sources; measurement of sound;
human perception of sound; prediction methods based
on energy considerations; sound propagation in realistic
environments: outdoors, rooms, ducts; absorption and
transmission loss, noise control; case studies.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 3705 and fourth-year status in
Engineering.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4302 [0.5 credit]
Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer
Differential equations of motion. Viscous and inviscid
regions. Potential flow: superposition; thin airfoils; finite
wings; compressibility corrections. Viscous flow: thin
shear layer approximation; laminar layers; transition;
turbulence modeling. Convective heat transfer: free versus
forced convection; energy and energy integral equations;
turbulent diffusion.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3300.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different
requirements, as MECH 5000., for which additional credit
is precluded.
Lectures three hours a week.
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AERO 4304 [0.5 credit]
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Differential equations of motion. Numerical integration
of ordinary differential equations. Potential flows: panel
methods; direct solution; vortex-lattice methods. Finitedifference formulations: explicit versus implicit methods;
stability. Parabolized and full Navier-Stokes equations;
conservation form. Transonic and supersonic flows:
upwind differencing. Grid transformations. Computerbased assignments.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3300 or MECH 3310.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4306 [0.5 credit]
Aerospace Vehicle Performance
Morphology of aircraft and spacecraft. Performance
analysis of fixed wing aircraft: drag estimation, propulsion,
take-off, climb and landing, endurance, payload/range,
manoeuvres; operational economics. Performance
analysis of rotor craft: rotor-blade motion, hovering and
vertical ascent, forward flight, and autorotation. Rocket
propulsion; escape velocity; orbital dynamics.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3300.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4308 [0.5 credit]
Aircraft Stability and Control
Static stability and control: equilibrium requirements;
longitudinal stability requirements; neutral points;
manoeuvring flight; control forces and control
requirements; lateral static stability certification
requirements. Dynamic stability: axis systems; governing
equations; phugoid and short period modes; lateral
dynamic modes. Closed-loop control.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3300. Additional recommended
background: MAAE 4500.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different
requirements, as MECH 5101., for which additional credit
is precluded.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4402 [0.5 credit]
Aerospace Propulsion
Propulsion requirements, effects of Mach Number,
altitude, and application; basic propeller theory; propeller,
turboshaft, turbojet, turbofan and rocket; cycle analysis
and optimization for gas turbine power plant; interrelations between thermodynamic, aerodynamic and
mechanical designs; rocket propulsion; selection of
aeroengines.
Precludes additional credit for MECH 4401.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2400 and MAAE 3300.
Lectures three hours a week.
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AERO 4442 [0.5 credit]
Transatmospheric and Spacecraft Propulsion
Planetary/interplanetary environments and effects. Launch
and spacecraft propulsion: liquid/solid/hybrid rockets,
ram/scramjets, combined cycle engines, electrothermal,
electromagnetic, electrostatic, nuclear, and propellantless
propulsion. Trajectory analysis, multi-staging, separation
dynamics. Advanced engine concepts.
Prerequisite(s): AERO 4302 or AERO 4446 or
MECH 4406.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4446 [0.5 credit]
Heat Transfer for Aerospace Applications
Fundamentals of heat transfer with emphasis on
aerospace systems design. Conduction, convection and
radiation modes of heat transfer. Radiation exchange
between surfaces and view factors. Radiation in
spacecraft thermal control. High speed flight and reentry
heating.
Precludes additional credit for MECH 4406.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2400, MAAE 3300.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4540 [0.5 credit]
Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control
Rigid body dynamics. The dynamic behavior of spacecraft.
Environmental torques. The design of attitude control
systems. Gravity gradient, spin, and dual spin stabilization.
Attitude manoeuvres. The design of automatic control
systems. Impacts of attitude stabilization techniques on
mission performance.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 3705, AERO 3240 and
SYSC 3600.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4602 [0.5 credit]
Introductory Aeroelasticity
Review of structural behaviour of lifting surface elements;
structural dynamics, Laplace Transforms, dynamic
stability; modal analysis; flutter, Theodorsen's theory;
flutter of a typical section; wing flutter, T-tail flutter,
propeller whirl flutter; gust response; buffeting, limit cycle
flutter.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3300 and SYSC 3600.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4607 [0.5 credit]
Rotorcraft Aerodynamics and Performance
Rotorcraft history and fundamentals. Momentum theory:
hover, axial climb and descent, autorotation, forward
flight, momentum theory for coaxial and tandem rotors.
Blade element analysis. Rotor airfoil aerodynamics. Rotor
blade dynamics and trim. Helicopter performance, heightvelocity curves, conceptual design. High-speed rotorcraft.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3300 and MAAE 3004.
Lectures three hours per week.
AERO 4608 [0.5 credit]
Composite Materials
Reinforcing mechanisms in composite materials; material
properties. Strength and elastic constants of unidirectional
composites; failure criteria. Analysis of laminated plates;
bending and eigenvalue problems. Environmental effects
and durability. Damage tolerance. Design of composite
structures.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 3202.
Lectures three hours a week.
AERO 4609 [0.5 credit]
Joining of Materials
Design for joining: base material and component
geometry. Selection of joining method and filler material;
Adhesive bonding; Soldering; Brazing; Diffusion bonding;
Resistance welding; Fusion welding (GTAW, EB, laser
and plasma arc); Friction welding; NDE. Emphasis on
Aerospace materials and applications.
Prerequisite(s): AERO 3700 or MECH 3700.
Lectures three hours per week.
AERO 4842 [0.5 credit]
Spacecraft Design II
System view of spacecraft. Requirements definition.
Spacecraft payloads (remote sensing, imaging systems,
astronomy instrumentation etc.). Exploration missions.
Implications for systems and missions. Space system
design case studies.
Precludes additional credit for AERO 4802 (no longer
offered).
Prerequisite(s): AERO 3841.
Lectures three hours a week, tutorials or laboratories one
hour per week.
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